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what we found out is that the obama administration accept the cbo's more pessimistic view of the economy so in their view the 10-year deficit goes from $7 trillion to $9 trillion but they are too optimistic about things. they are not going to get $600 billion in cap and trade auction revenues and they are not going to turn off spending they turned on with the stimulus bill, like pell grants. these numbers are going to be even bigger yet. neil: if you were to throw in some of the other things the administration wants to do you can easily get to that $9 trillion and then some so this is not necessarily the cbo endorsing it but they just did not talk delayed some of the things the white house wanted to do. >> it has handcuffs on it. it has to price the deficit using current law, and the current law says many of these things will sunset. the cbo estimate is only interesting because the current estimate now versus the estimates back in march is now $3 trillion worse so the basic situation is deteriorating. policies, is worse. -- it is wars. -- worse. neil: we had a chuckle about this, not kno
what we found out is that the obama administration accept the cbo's more pessimistic view of the economy so in their view the 10-year deficit goes from $7 trillion to $9 trillion but they are too optimistic about things. they are not going to get $600 billion in cap and trade auction revenues and they are not going to turn off spending they turned on with the stimulus bill, like pell grants. these numbers are going to be even bigger yet. neil: if you were to throw in some of the other things...
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the obama administration itself predicted it would not get higher than 8%, and it is about 9.4%. before you start canonizing this guy -- wait a minute. before you start doing that, the economy is not generating this because of stimulus, right? >> uh-uh, come on, neil. that is absurd. every major economist has conceded that the obama administration has prevented us from moving backwards. neil: no, no, every major economist has not said that. every major economists looks at history, and we're coming out of 1.5 years. let's say you are right. let's say i give you this and you are right, and 10% of the stimulus money from the first stimulus has done it, then we can stop the spigot. we certainly do not need to spend the rest of the stimulus, and we certainly do not need more stimulus, right? >> we may not need to spend 100% of it, but there are long- term educational projects and long-term health projects that are about long-term stimulus. neil: we do not have that money. >> the money is not a schiavo. it is a rope. neil: it is a rope, all right. around your neck. . . %%%%%%%%
the obama administration itself predicted it would not get higher than 8%, and it is about 9.4%. before you start canonizing this guy -- wait a minute. before you start doing that, the economy is not generating this because of stimulus, right? >> uh-uh, come on, neil. that is absurd. every major economist has conceded that the obama administration has prevented us from moving backwards. neil: no, no, every major economist has not said that. every major economists looks at history, and...
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the pharmaceutical companies have completely sold out to the obama administration. things are so different now. the average american has so many questions. the politicians are not answering them. that is what the frustration is so deep. neil: there has been a lot of frustration about the spending going on. there are people responding to that as well. >> this cash for clunkers program has been fantastic. car sales have gone up like crazy. everybody says it is terrible. >> four days, it was supposed to last four months. he did not plan properly. [yellin'] >> it is another car bailout. neil: they were all congenial and getting along. >> it looks like a family reunion. you have to understand that i actually walked away from there. i stepped back as i -- as they did that. it was as if i was not there anymore. there is a point here. this is something that i do not think the obama people are really getting. the level of anger and frustration is so deep that they feel like they have been betrayed. that is the word that i have listened to. it's a corporation's profits are ca
the pharmaceutical companies have completely sold out to the obama administration. things are so different now. the average american has so many questions. the politicians are not answering them. that is what the frustration is so deep. neil: there has been a lot of frustration about the spending going on. there are people responding to that as well. >> this cash for clunkers program has been fantastic. car sales have gone up like crazy. everybody says it is terrible. >> four days,...
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i think that the obama administration wants a piece of that. neil: but there is no way to prove that they are in cahoots with google, that is just suspicion? >> if you look at the history of what is going on, google certainly has a lot of history in washington. they throw a lot of money around, and they are whitehouse .gov, so what is next? neil: my next guest says regardless of the ridiculous, this does raise some serious issues. what do you think? >> i think that your previous guest's concerns are correct, and here's why -- when president nixon used the fbi and cia and civilian clad military to take pictures of people during anti- war protests in the 1970's, the supreme court said it was unconstitutional. when nixon left office, the congress enacted the privacy act, which prohibits any branch of government from copying defaces or the words that people use and from storing those in records. it also prohibits the government from watching you while you browse a book in a library or get copies of the books you take out of the library. what is the
i think that the obama administration wants a piece of that. neil: but there is no way to prove that they are in cahoots with google, that is just suspicion? >> if you look at the history of what is going on, google certainly has a lot of history in washington. they throw a lot of money around, and they are whitehouse .gov, so what is next? neil: my next guest says regardless of the ridiculous, this does raise some serious issues. what do you think? >> i think that your previous...
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once again, the obama administration is forced to walk a fine line. like so many government programs, these subsidies in the form of tariffs hurt private enterprise. albeit, with this one, the caveat is that it helps american farmers. still, let's let true market principles takeover. do we need to have a town hall meetings and tea party about sugar, too? let's stop cash for cupcakes. neil: great job as always. >> i'll split this with you. neil: we are not splitting. just give it to me. my next guest says this whole mess is just the white house's didn't that tax. what is really going on here? >> i think the fact that the white house is not moving on this and the fact that it does not seem to be a priority -- they are continuing a long standing, foolish policy that forces us to pay billions of dollars more for sugar -- is a deliberate policy choice. want us to pay more. they want to manage our lives. they want -- they do not want us to do unhealthy things. we already saw the cigarette tax rates. we have seen things like the sugar beverage tax floated as
once again, the obama administration is forced to walk a fine line. like so many government programs, these subsidies in the form of tariffs hurt private enterprise. albeit, with this one, the caveat is that it helps american farmers. still, let's let true market principles takeover. do we need to have a town hall meetings and tea party about sugar, too? let's stop cash for cupcakes. neil: great job as always. >> i'll split this with you. neil: we are not splitting. just give it to me. my...
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meanwhile, the obama administration say it is ending its cash for clunkers program on monday, and dealers are wondering if they will ever see their money. one man says, you had better believe it. he is the owner of a mitsubishi schrplace. >>ç you areç right, neil. if they run the public option program, we are going to have a problem. dealers around the country are not getting paid. this bureaucratic cash for clunkers program has just turned into a nightmare. neil: the president today said it was a victim of its own success, that it was this note -- it was so successful, they were not prepared for it. >> what do you expect? they know they're giving away taxpayer money for people to buy cars. of course, it is going to be a success. the guy has 300 people to take care of this. from day one, it was not enough. it is pages of gobbledegook written by bureaucrats who do not understand what it is. neil: so the dealers are saying what? all right, we are not getting paid for the clunkers that are getting turned in, and so we are not going to do it? >> they have stopped doing it. number one, the
meanwhile, the obama administration say it is ending its cash for clunkers program on monday, and dealers are wondering if they will ever see their money. one man says, you had better believe it. he is the owner of a mitsubishi schrplace. >>ç you areç right, neil. if they run the public option program, we are going to have a problem. dealers around the country are not getting paid. this bureaucratic cash for clunkers program has just turned into a nightmare. neil: the president today...
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administration is having government intervention in the private market. we are a country of entrepreneurs, of private-sector growth, not government involvement, and i think that religious faith leaders would be interested in that. neil: and not just religious leaders. i talked to born-again coach joe gibbs about the religious and how they view how jesus would view providing health care. this is from my discussion. >> the argument you hear from those to support it -- the arguments you hear is that it is the right and decent thing to do, even the christian thing to do, that everyone should have this basic human right. do you agree with that? >> i think we definitely want to do that. there is a real concern for those who do not have health insurance. that is obviously a big deal. i would also say there is a real concern for a lot of us, is the government going to run everything? neil: which wins out? because or the moral commitment? >> well, they are related, neil. and you cannot say that people are lacking health insurance so we are all the gallager focus o
administration is having government intervention in the private market. we are a country of entrepreneurs, of private-sector growth, not government involvement, and i think that religious faith leaders would be interested in that. neil: and not just religious leaders. i talked to born-again coach joe gibbs about the religious and how they view how jesus would view providing health care. this is from my discussion. >> the argument you hear from those to support it -- the arguments you hear...
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the obama administration did and congress did, that the auto industry is part of the manufacturing base. it is different than pc makers, then jellybean makers -- neil: careful on the jellybean makers. nancy, thank you very much. jeff session thinks the clunker program is a clunker for taxpayers and plans to vote no on the next $2 billion. but, senator, they are going to find money for this, aren't they? >> sure, there will find money by just borrowing it. the first $1 billion was extra debt. we spent $8 billion to stimulate the economy. we did not fund this program out of that. now, they say we are taking $2 billion out of nuclear power loan money, which we really need to encourage the nuclear power industry, and this money would all be paid back. we give this free money for this project, and nancy pelosi says, "don't worry, we will get more money to pay a --" neil: do you think it is just robbing peter to pay paul and that we are training people to buy when the government supports the industry? >> there was a good op-ed in the "wall street journal" today, saying that people held back,
the obama administration did and congress did, that the auto industry is part of the manufacturing base. it is different than pc makers, then jellybean makers -- neil: careful on the jellybean makers. nancy, thank you very much. jeff session thinks the clunker program is a clunker for taxpayers and plans to vote no on the next $2 billion. but, senator, they are going to find money for this, aren't they? >> sure, there will find money by just borrowing it. the first $1 billion was extra...
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it is part of a larger practice of the obama administration that got itself elected on promises of transparency. is there a list? what government agency is compiling it? there are serious violations that could be at stake here. for example, a violation of the privacy act of 1974. if they are obtaining information about individuals that era exercising their first amendment rights, compiling the list, and targeting those individuals -- these people do not know why they are getting these e-mails. why is this particular person getting an e-mail from david axelrod about this? neil: even if they have no grievance, some people -- they felt that they were spam on this. neil: regardless of whether it was delivered, accidental, or they were standing on this, where is the government entity in that? >> their on solid ground in terms of the government to advocate positions, even on controversial issues, for example, health care reform. they are allowed to stay their viewpoints and try to reach people, but what they cannot do is get that personal information and compile these lists targeting certain individu
it is part of a larger practice of the obama administration that got itself elected on promises of transparency. is there a list? what government agency is compiling it? there are serious violations that could be at stake here. for example, a violation of the privacy act of 1974. if they are obtaining information about individuals that era exercising their first amendment rights, compiling the list, and targeting those individuals -- these people do not know why they are getting these e-mails....
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obama was going to sit down with anybody and discuss it. that has not happened. it is not going to happen. they have not attacked the bush administration -- i'd think dick cheney, he did not say "i am going to do it? " he said they would leave the option on the table, and i agree with that. neil: did you ever envision such a toxic environment now where the two sides, any side of milligrams, the other side pillories them -- any sign of middle ground? what do you make of it? >> is easy to be critical. i have been gone for 12 years, so is even easier to be critical. i am not there. i do not see what happens every day, and there are a lot of good things happen. one thing that bothers me is it has gotten so personal where you have these attacks of one senator on another or statements made off the senate floor where you cannot make a response or make a reply. i mean, we had plenty of differences when i was in the senate and chairman of the senate finance committee and republican leader, but we always tried to keep its civil where i could go speak to senator mitchell or
obama was going to sit down with anybody and discuss it. that has not happened. it is not going to happen. they have not attacked the bush administration -- i'd think dick cheney, he did not say "i am going to do it? " he said they would leave the option on the table, and i agree with that. neil: did you ever envision such a toxic environment now where the two sides, any side of milligrams, the other side pillories them -- any sign of middle ground? what do you make of it? >> is...
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to assume suspicious activity with me based on the purely different interpretation versus president obama says health care will be and what i think it will be. neil: freedom of speech and all of that, but i just kept thinking, if this had happened in the last administration, if they had put at an edict like, we want you to track anybody who might have anything to do with the iraq war or the build up, while richard nixon and the whole debate of the pentagon papers prior -- or richard nixon, we might be talking about how we got into vietnam. quite a different reaction, i would think, in the way it would be covered. >> well, neil, if you look at this, i think the really big lawsuit -- wazoo is that you have simultaneous plummeting of the barack obama approval ratings, and you have got simultaneous distrust being sewn back into the electorate, when you hear geithner and sommers, as you very articulately pointed out on this program -- when you. geithner or larry summers -- when you hear geithner or larry summers. if he loses its credibility, trying to build this kind of utopia, everything else
to assume suspicious activity with me based on the purely different interpretation versus president obama says health care will be and what i think it will be. neil: freedom of speech and all of that, but i just kept thinking, if this had happened in the last administration, if they had put at an edict like, we want you to track anybody who might have anything to do with the iraq war or the build up, while richard nixon and the whole debate of the pentagon papers prior -- or richard nixon, we...